Advances in temperate agroforestry

Contributions by Dr Lukas Beule, Professor Maren Oelbermann, Dr Anthony O'Grady, Emeritus Professor Jim McAdam, Dr Marina Castro, Dr Adolfo Rosati, Dr Marcelo Javier Beltrán, Dr Oskar Englund, Dr Mario Santos, Dr Margaret Bloomquist, Professor Steven Newman Edited by Professor María Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Dr Ladislau Martin, Professor Anastasia Pantera, Dr Allison Morrill Chatrchyan

Publication date:

20 May 2025

Length of book:

400 pages

Publisher

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Dimensions:

229x152mm
6x9"

With growing concern about the environmental impact of agriculture and its consequent contribution to climate change, there is an increasing interest in the implementation of agroecological approaches to achieve a more sustainable agriculture. Agroforestry is one area of research which has gained significant momentum in recent years.

Advances in temperate agroforestry reviews key recent advances in measuring and valuing how agroforestry systems promote biodiversity and deliver ecosystem services such as soil carbon sequestration. The book also considers the development of different silvopastoral and silvoarable practices, including integrating trees and livestock in timber forests, orchard and pasture systems, as well as alley cropping and intercropping.

Part 1 Measuring and valuing agroforestry ecosystem services

1.Assessing the benefits of temperate cropland agroforestry for promoting soil biological health: Lukas Beule, Julius Kühn-Institut, Germany;
2.Assessing the benefits of temperate agroforestry in enhancing carbon sequestration: Maren Oelbermann, University of Waterloo, Canada;
3.Ecosystem accounting to value ecosystem assets and services provided by agroforestry: Anthony O'Grady, CSIRO, Australia;

Part 2 Advances in silvopastoral systems

4.Types of silvopastoral system: an overview: Jim McAdam, formerly AFI/Queen's University Belfast, UK;
5.Types of silvopastoral system: forests/timber plantations with pasture grazing for livestock: Marina Castro, IPB-ESAB, Portugal;
6.Types of silvopastoral system: orchards/vineyards with grazing for livestock: Adolfo Rosati, CREA, Italy;
7.Types of silvopastoral system: adding trees to pasture/rangelands: Marcelo Javier Beltrán, National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Argentina;

Part 3 Advances in silvoarable and other systems

8.Multifunctional windbreaks and riparian buffers can deliver biomass and other ecosystem services: Oskar Englund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden;
9.Modelling and optimising associated biodiversity in alley cropping systems: Mario Santos, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal;
10.Developments in forest farming: Margaret Bloomquist, North Carolina State University, USA;
11.Developing urban agroforestry in the current crisis: Steven Newman, BioDiversity International/University of Leeds, UK;